Yes. It is harmful to the cops ( some die ) and beneficial to the perps ( who do not fear being shot ).
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You are conceding the point that it is not in fact normal in other parts of the world for the police to shoot the driver as a means of avoiding being hit by the car. Doing so does not even make sense from a practical point of view. The car will most likely keep coming towards you anyway.
The incident you linked where the police officer sustained life threatening injuries (they didn’t die, as far as I can tell) seems to have been a collision between two cars caused by dangerous driving, so it’s not really a relevant example.
The point is not to stop the car. The point is to stop the driver, because that person is obviously willing to kill someone using the car as a weapon. That person should be stopped ASAP.
The cited articles include charges of murder, highlighting that point.
Err, your claim is that Renee Good was about to go on a Carmageddon-style killing spree and the ICE agent was concerned not for his own safety but for the safety of the general public? There are three key problems with this analysis:
1) It is utterly ludicrous considered in itself, going beyond even what MAGA’s lunatic fringe has dared to suggest.
2) It undermines the only possible legal defense the officer might theoretically have had (self defense).
3) Even waiving the outrageous absurdity of what you’re saying and your various insults to the reader’s intelligence, shooting the driver just means that the car is almost certain to crash into something (as indeed happened here), which creates more danger to the general public, not less.